"Case Title
ASARCO LLC v. Estate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. et al
Court
Nature of Suit
Case Number
Judge
Date Filed
April 18, 2011"
http://www.law360.com/energy/articles/239975/asarco-brings-cercla-suit-against-rockefeller-estate
Thursday, April 21, 2011
ASARCO LLC v. Estate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. et al 2:11-cv-00661
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Asarco sues the Rockerfeller Estate
The Federal DOJ Bankruptcy Trustee for the Bankruptcy District at Corpus Christi TX allowed ASARCO to complete its entire bankruptcy without ever considering the liabilities from Asarco's years of illegally disposing of Toxic Waste, despite being legally notified of this lapse winter of 2006. In Oct.,2006 the NYTimes exposed the story of how the EPA had secretly proven to the DOJ in 1998 that ASARCO disposed of illegal toxic wastes for nearly ten years - but then hid the truth away in a "confidential for settlement purposes only document". This document became public-domain in 2006. Rep. Reyes (Chair House Intelligence Committee) wrote that Asarco paid millions on the condition that the details of what it had done would never become public.
So now Asarco and its owner, Grupo Mexico, have huge 1st quarter profits this year; and, they have sued the Rockefeller Estate. The Rockefeller estate attorneys ought to study this blog's archives in Scribe for the 30 documents and evidence sent to the Gov. of New Mexico (twice) about Asarco; and, that were taken through two sets of courts with each court failing to address the evidence. The Federal DOJ has failed to hold Asarco responsible and allowed this to snowball. No one has explained the presence of a Swiss Financial institution named "Asarco" (associated with Asarco inc.).
"Law360, New York (April 19, 2011) -- Asarco LLC hit the estate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and other entities with a lawsuit in Washington state Monday seeking environmental response costs at a polluted smelter site over which the plaintiff recently paid a $38 million settlement.
Asarco claims in its contribution and cost recovery complaint filed in the Western District of Washington that the estate and four other entities are liable as owners or operators under..."
So now Asarco and its owner, Grupo Mexico, have huge 1st quarter profits this year; and, they have sued the Rockefeller Estate. The Rockefeller estate attorneys ought to study this blog's archives in Scribe for the 30 documents and evidence sent to the Gov. of New Mexico (twice) about Asarco; and, that were taken through two sets of courts with each court failing to address the evidence. The Federal DOJ has failed to hold Asarco responsible and allowed this to snowball. No one has explained the presence of a Swiss Financial institution named "Asarco" (associated with Asarco inc.).
"Law360, New York (April 19, 2011) -- Asarco LLC hit the estate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and other entities with a lawsuit in Washington state Monday seeking environmental response costs at a polluted smelter site over which the plaintiff recently paid a $38 million settlement.
Asarco claims in its contribution and cost recovery complaint filed in the Western District of Washington that the estate and four other entities are liable as owners or operators under..."
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Judge Richard Schmidt of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has closed two more affiliate cases of ASARCO LLC
"Court Closes 2 More ASARCO Affiliate Cases
On March - 20 - 2011
FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. — Judge Richard Schmidt of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has closed two more affiliate cases of ASARCO LLC. They are the cases of Encycle Inc. and Government Gulch Mining Company, Limited...."
Read the Asarco Corpus Christi Encycle Whistleblower secret document from 1994 and the document from SPGEG to the DOJ Trustee to these Bankruptcy courts in 2006-7 asking the Trustee to force the courts to face the liabilities from the years of illegal secret toxic-waste disposal by ASARCO....
Why hasn't the Bankruptcy court considered any liabilities from Asarco's years of illegal secret waste disposal in Corpus Christi TX, El Paso TX, and East Helena MT.???? Why has the Federal DOJ looked the other way?
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Ex ASARCO Workers to Identify Undisclosed Illegal Waste Dumps on ASARCO El Paso Property
Ex ASARCO Workers to Identify Undisclosed Illegal Waste Dumps on ASARCO-El Paso Property
March 23, 2011
EL PASO, TX – March 23, 2011 – This Saturday, former employees of the ASARCO El Paso plant, as part of the Ex-ASARCO Workers coalition, will identify five unlined dumpsites on the ASARCO property that continue to contaminate the area and pose serious risks to the public health. Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and a Trustee in charge of remediating the site will be present.
The EPA has informed the Ex-ASARCO Workers that the media will not be allowed to participate in the site visit. As a result, a press briefing will be held at the ASARCO site on Saturday, March 26 starting at 1:00 pm.
“When we first told the EPA about the hidden dumpsite in November, we thought they would be on the next plane to El Paso to investigate,” said Carlos Rodriguez, lead organizer of the Ex-ASARCO Workers. “We were wrong. Clearly, the continued contamination of this property is not a high priority.”
The unlined dumpsites sit on the El Paso property where ASARCO operated a copper smelter and handled military hazardous waste for more than 100 years. The former workers contend that they were instructed to dig pits on the property and bury contaminated materials throughout their employment. They did not place any lining that would prevent the contaminants from leaching into groundwater sources. Current plans for the property call for covering up the areas where the sites are located, rather than sampling and remediating them.
Recently the Ex-ASARCO Workers have also raised concerns that the future of the site includes plans to sell land where known ASARCO dumpsites exist, including an area east of I-10, for use as residences.
“We cannot believe that this land is going to be sold and turned into a residential area and a hiking trail. We know this area has been contaminated and there is no proof that the site is clean enough for families to live there and for children to play there,” said Mario Navarez, a member of the Ex-ASARCO Workers.
The Ex-ASARCO Workers are asking other former ASARCO employees and their spouses to contact them if they have information that would help protect the community from continued environmental pollution. Individuals can contact Veronica Carbajal, attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, at (915) 585-5107.
Established in 1970, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. (TRLA) is a nonprofit organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income and disadvantaged clients in a 68-county service area. TRLA’s mission is to promote the dignity, self-sufficiency, safety and stability of low-income Texas residents by providing high-quality civil legal assistance and related educational services. For more information on Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. and this story visit www.trla.org.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Asarco sues EPA for "destroying evidence" regarding Omaha smelter superfund site while DOJ and EPA protect ASARCO....
What kind of poker-hand is being played, here and why??
"Asarco Inc. said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency destroyed evidence that the company's smelter didn't cause lead pollution in an Omaha neighborhood ..."
http://www.omaha.com/article/20101217/NEWS97/712179877
"Asarco Inc. said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency destroyed evidence that the company's smelter didn't cause lead pollution in an Omaha neighborhood ..."
http://www.omaha.com/article/20101217/NEWS97/712179877
Monday, February 28, 2011
El Paso Times covers Ex-Asarco-workers and others site visit 2-25-11 after massive fire gutted the IONICS distillation unit
Google Alert
EPA joins in walk-through at Asarco: Past employees want further site tests ...
El Paso Times
"by Chris Roberts \ El Paso Times Patrick Garza, left, who worked for ASARCO as a contractor and employee, left, talks to Michael J. Casbon of Environmental Resources Management, who is overseeing the demolition of the site about a recent fire in the ..."
EPA joins in walk-through at Asarco: Past employees want further site tests ...
El Paso Times
"by Chris Roberts \ El Paso Times Patrick Garza, left, who worked for ASARCO as a contractor and employee, left, talks to Michael J. Casbon of Environmental Resources Management, who is overseeing the demolition of the site about a recent fire in the ..."
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Another example of Asarco handling Radioactive Isotopes provided by El Paso Asarco Cleanup Trustee
Asarco El Paso Trustee provides online link to TENORM copper leaching radioactive wastes data
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm/copper.html
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm/copper.html
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
ASARCO El Paso Redevelopment TVNews Story: Costs of secret liabilities from illegal hazardous waste disposal for years? (PRICELESS!)
Apparently a "redevelopment plan" for ASARCO site was released to the public today (http://www.kvia.com/video/26523619/index.html) and it is extremely scary to those of us who realize how contaminated that site must actually be --- Please watch this film clip - it is very short. Remember that a UTEP geology professor recently was willing to go public stating that simply paving over the Asarco site as planned will not make it "safe".
"google alert:
Plan El Paso 2010 Includes Asarco Redevelopment Video KVIA El Paso
Plan El Paso 2010 Includes Asarco Redevelopment. ....
www.kvia.com/video/26523619/index.html
"
"google alert:
Plan El Paso 2010 Includes Asarco Redevelopment Video KVIA El Paso
Plan El Paso 2010 Includes Asarco Redevelopment. ....
www.kvia.com/video/26523619/index.html
"
Asarco asset sales to date: $539,313.70:: Undisclosed liabilities from Secret Hazmat wastes? PRICELESS
Asarco asset sales to date: $539,313.70:: Undisclosed liabilities from Secret Hazmat wastes? PRICELESS
"Recasting the Smelter
ASARCO Asset Sales (updated 12/08/10)
Sale No. Item Date Amount
1 Rails/Rail ties 7/12/10 $215,000.00
2 2 horizontal cryogenic liquid oxygen above-ground tanks 3/5/10 $130,500.00
3 Slag Pots 6/10/10 $60,000.00
....[etc etc]
TOTAL TO DATE $539,313.70"
http://www.recastingthesmelter.com/?page_id=395
Asarco El Paso TX Clean-up Trustee and contractors proceeding with demolition while not disclosing what Asarco did
Why do our EPA investigators, our TCEQ Commissioners, our Federal DOJ Attorneys continue to look the other way and allow the Trustee to tear down these structures and sell/dispose of these, without telling any of us what illegal and secret hazardous wastes remain?
What happened here, in El Paso Texas from the years of Asarco burning illegal hazardous wastes for YEARS and YEARS SECRETLY for (in the EPA's words to the DOJ) to make money --- what happened here that was so so very bad that even today over 12 years later, the powers that be are afraid to tell the public the details of what Asarco had done?
Rep. Reyes, chair of the House Intelligence committee, said that Asarco paid millions on the condition that details of what it had done would never become public.
Despite legal notification, the Federal DOJ Asarco Bankruptcy Trustee allowed the Asarco Bankruptcy court to continue to hide those details.
Despite a NYTimes front page article and a DOJ Attorney releasing the Secret DOJ-EPA Confidential for Settlement purposes only 72 page document detailing what ASARCO had done, over five years later the Paso del Norte community has not been given the details of what contamination remains here from what ASARCO did.
The International JAC (La Paz Accord) committee passed a resolution recommending that background contamination data be gathered --- and THIS RESOLUTION WAS THEN IGNORED.
What happened here, in El Paso Texas from the years of Asarco burning illegal hazardous wastes for YEARS and YEARS SECRETLY for (in the EPA's words to the DOJ) to make money --- what happened here that was so so very bad that even today over 12 years later, the powers that be are afraid to tell the public the details of what Asarco had done?
Rep. Reyes, chair of the House Intelligence committee, said that Asarco paid millions on the condition that details of what it had done would never become public.
Despite legal notification, the Federal DOJ Asarco Bankruptcy Trustee allowed the Asarco Bankruptcy court to continue to hide those details.
Despite a NYTimes front page article and a DOJ Attorney releasing the Secret DOJ-EPA Confidential for Settlement purposes only 72 page document detailing what ASARCO had done, over five years later the Paso del Norte community has not been given the details of what contamination remains here from what ASARCO did.
Why hasn't the Trustee allowed sampling of this structure by independent community groups - or even (free!) RADON sampling inside the buildings? What on earth is the Trustee afraid of?The Asarco El Paso site Trustee writes on their website: "Dear Stakeholders, The Trust has been extremely busy working at the Former ASARCO Smelter Site to ensure a safe demolition and thorough investigation/remediation process. Current major activities include: Removing the Contop/Reverb structure to ascertain the presence of valuable matte and concentrate materials,"
The International JAC (La Paz Accord) committee passed a resolution recommending that background contamination data be gathered --- and THIS RESOLUTION WAS THEN IGNORED.
Friday, January 14, 2011
ASARCO "The Department of Justice owes the public an explanation"
And, why has the DOJ not held the DOJ BANKRUPTCY Trustee for the ASARCO case accountable for failing to make the Asarco Bankruptcy court(s) consider the secret-illegal hazardous wastes that the DOJ and EPA discovered were incinerated for nearly ten years by Asarco in at least two smelters?!"However, a powerful Senator did not hesitate to comment on the matter. “The Department of Justice owes the public an explanation for why there have been no criminal prosecutions despite the SEC openly making accusations of a witness being bought off,” Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa told POGO. Grassley is slated to be the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the DOJ." [12-10 quote regarding " major case involving Pequot Capital Management, once the world’s largest hedge fund, and alleged insider trading in shares of Microsoft"]
http://www.truth-out.org/sec-describes-possible-criminal-activity-unprosecuted-hedge-fund-case66233
How many "Confidential for settlement purposes only" documents are out there between the EPA and DOJ like the 1998 "confidential for settlement purposes only [72 pp] DOJ-EPA Asarco document" ? How much information is being kept "secret" from affected-communities via these "confidential settlements" ? Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Reyes said that Asarco paid MILLIONS on the condition that the details of what it had done would NEVER BECOME PUBLIC.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Now the ASARCO Bankruptcy is over, copper prices increase ...
"Google Alert - asarco
Copper mining sees new AZ momentum
Arizona Daily Star
As rising copper prices increase mining-company profits, Arizona-based mining giants Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and Asarco have boosted the work force ..."
To this day, the liabilities from nearly ten years of ASARCO disposing/burning secret hazardous wastes for profit have never been discussed in the Bankruptcy Courts. Rep. Reyes, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee said that Asarco paid millions of dollars on the condition that details of what it had done would never become public. El Paso TX got only about $52 million to clean up whatever undisclosed undeclared unmanifested hazardous wastes remain at the El Paso Asarco site and over 100 years of custom and secondary smelting activity. The Asarco toxic groundwater plume reaches the Rio Grand the width of the entire property - below that point the City still draws irrigation water for over 70 miles of irrigation district (managed by Rep. Reyes' brother) ---- and, draws water for drinking (for central and westside El Paso according to the EPWU Vice President of Operations.)
Copper mining sees new AZ momentum
Arizona Daily Star
As rising copper prices increase mining-company profits, Arizona-based mining giants Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold and Asarco have boosted the work force ..."
To this day, the liabilities from nearly ten years of ASARCO disposing/burning secret hazardous wastes for profit have never been discussed in the Bankruptcy Courts. Rep. Reyes, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee said that Asarco paid millions of dollars on the condition that details of what it had done would never become public. El Paso TX got only about $52 million to clean up whatever undisclosed undeclared unmanifested hazardous wastes remain at the El Paso Asarco site and over 100 years of custom and secondary smelting activity. The Asarco toxic groundwater plume reaches the Rio Grand the width of the entire property - below that point the City still draws irrigation water for over 70 miles of irrigation district (managed by Rep. Reyes' brother) ---- and, draws water for drinking (for central and westside El Paso according to the EPWU Vice President of Operations.)
Friday, December 31, 2010
Asarco El Paso TX ... "such are the places where every man woman and child seeks EQUAL JUSTICE"...
“Where after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity, without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Seven years ago Carlyle Group created a team to begin investing in Mexico...
"In January 2004, the Carlyle Group put together a new team to begin investing in Mexico. The team consisted of Luis T?llez, who was then an executive vice president of Desc, one of Mexico's largest companies; Joaquin Avila, who was then a managing director of Lehman Brothers; and Mark McLarty, the president of Kissinger McLarty Associates and chief of staff to and special envoy to the Americas for President Bill Clinton."....'At the March 2005 meeting at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, President Bush, President Fox of Mexico and Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin announced a joint decision to form a tri-lateral partnership named "The Security Prosperity Partnership of North America," or SPP."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50334
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50334
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
What do ASARCO, Grupo Mexico, NEBRASKA, CLEAN COAL ENERGY and RAILROADS all have in common?
Asarco is suing EPA in Nebraska (EPA Region 7) -- home to Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also Peru's FCCA Railroad (owned by 'Railroad Development Corp.')
“We’re aware of the filing and are reviewing it,” Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle said in a phone interview today. “We will respond appropriately in court.”
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Southern_Copper_%28PCU%29/Class_Actions
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-12-17/asarco-claims-epa-lied-destroyed-evidence-in-nebraska-lead-pollution-case.html
An interesting aside is that Asarco is owned by Grupo Mexico whom (along with Carlyle Group) controls over 50% of the Freight-rail-right-of-way in Mexico; and, whom wants to merge Ferromex with Ferrosur and deliver Pacific NAFTA goods from a proposed-Mexico-seaport to the USA Eastern Seaboard through Chicago (search for "Punta Colonet" on this blog). Carlyle owns CSX railroad (USA eastern seaboard).
Besides being home for Union Pacific Railroad Co., Nebraska is headquarters to an international-railroad-company that is uniquely situated to deliver NAFTA goods from various points in the central USA to Chicago, RDC. Its management also serve as executives to the Hawthorne Group (apparently the same group mentioned by Wikipedia in connection with the "2009 debate over the [Clean Coal] Waxman/Markey bill"). One of the RDC officers "played a key role in RDC's activities in Peru" (see below), where Asarco has the SPCC (Southern Peru Copper Corp.). RDC operates FCCA in Peru along with connections to neighbor(s); Grupo Mexico has its own railroad in Peru for SPCC.
"Iowa Interstate Railroad, LTD (acquired by RDC in 2004) is a privately held Delaware Corporation and subsidiary of Railroad Development Corporation. It is also one of the few Regional Railroads that connects with the entire Class 1 railroad system (BNSF, UP, CN, CP, KCS, CSXT, and NS) at multiple locations. ...As a result, IAIS customers have the capability to ship and receive their goods to or from anywhere in North America. ...Our service pattern is 7 days per week between the Omaha area and Chicago. We also offer access to the Mississippi and Illinois River terminals....http://www.iaisrr.com/
Mgt. of RDC:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Grupo+Mexico,+S.A.+de+C.V.+Strategies+for+Southern+Peru+Copper...-a058295607
"Rail transport in Peru [Home of Grupo Mexico Southern Peru Copper Corp]: ...
Since 1999 it has been operated as the Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA)... by the Pittsburgh-registered Railroad Development Corporation. ....The Central is extended by the Ferrocarril Huancayo - Huancavelica ...Also connecting with the Central, at La Oroya, is the Cerro de Pasco railway ...The owning company was nationalised as Centromín in 1974 and operation of the railway was taken over by FCCA...The newest railway in Peru is a standard gauge line opened in 1959 by the Southern Peru Copper Corporation from its opencast mine at Toquepala to the port of Ilo (187 km/116 mi) with a later branch largely in tunnel to its workings at Cuajone. " http://www.thefullwiki.org/Rail_transport_in_Peru
"Controversy: During the 2009 debate over the Waxman/Markey bill, Bonner & Associates, a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm subcontracted by ACCCE ["American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity"] though the Hawthorne Group to drum up "grassroots support" for this effort, sent a number of fraudulent letters to lawmakers on behalf of ACCCE. ..."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity"
“We’re aware of the filing and are reviewing it,” Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle said in a phone interview today. “We will respond appropriately in court.”
In a separate lawsuit in federal court in Nebraska, Union Pacific Railroad Co., which the EPA also blamed for the pollution at the Omaha site, refused to settle and sued the agency seeking the same contamination studies that Asarco had requested."
see:http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Southern_Copper_%28PCU%29/Class_Actions
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2010-12-17/asarco-claims-epa-lied-destroyed-evidence-in-nebraska-lead-pollution-case.html
An interesting aside is that Asarco is owned by Grupo Mexico whom (along with Carlyle Group) controls over 50% of the Freight-rail-right-of-way in Mexico; and, whom wants to merge Ferromex with Ferrosur and deliver Pacific NAFTA goods from a proposed-Mexico-seaport to the USA Eastern Seaboard through Chicago (search for "Punta Colonet" on this blog). Carlyle owns CSX railroad (USA eastern seaboard).
Besides being home for Union Pacific Railroad Co., Nebraska is headquarters to an international-railroad-company that is uniquely situated to deliver NAFTA goods from various points in the central USA to Chicago, RDC. Its management also serve as executives to the Hawthorne Group (apparently the same group mentioned by Wikipedia in connection with the "2009 debate over the [Clean Coal] Waxman/Markey bill"). One of the RDC officers "played a key role in RDC's activities in Peru" (see below), where Asarco has the SPCC (Southern Peru Copper Corp.). RDC operates FCCA in Peru along with connections to neighbor(s); Grupo Mexico has its own railroad in Peru for SPCC.
"Iowa Interstate Railroad, LTD (acquired by RDC in 2004) is a privately held Delaware Corporation and subsidiary of Railroad Development Corporation. It is also one of the few Regional Railroads that connects with the entire Class 1 railroad system (BNSF, UP, CN, CP, KCS, CSXT, and NS) at multiple locations. ...As a result, IAIS customers have the capability to ship and receive their goods to or from anywhere in North America. ...Our service pattern is 7 days per week between the Omaha area and Chicago. We also offer access to the Mississippi and Illinois River terminals....http://www.iaisrr.com/
Mgt. of RDC:
"Henry Posner III ...serves as Chairman of RDC; Chairman of Iowa Interstate Railroad; Chairman of Ferrovias Guatemala; a Director of América Latina Logística-Central & Mesopotámico (Argentina); and as Vice Chairman of The Hawthorne Group." http://www.rrdc.com/mgmt_bio_posner.html"The intention of Grupo Mexico is to maintain and improve the productive plant of SPCC, - that means continuing with the mine and concentrator facility expansion in Toquepala, the construction of an SXEW facility in Cuajone or the expansion of the one located in Toquepala."
Mr. Pietrandrea [President of RDC] also serves as ...Chief Operating Officer of The Hawthorne Group.
http://www.rrdc.com/mgmt_bio_pietrandrea.htmlWilliam J. Duggan [is] Vice President-Operations [of RDC and the ] President, Ferrovias Guatemala...[he] has since played a key role in RDC's activities in Peru and Guatemala....
Since 2003, Mr. Hensler has served as RDC's Chief Financial Officer.....[he] is also a Vice President of The Hawthorne Group, a private investment and management company which invests through affiliates primarily in media and communication companies."
http://www.rrdc.com/mgmt_bio_hensler.html
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Grupo+Mexico,+S.A.+de+C.V.+Strategies+for+Southern+Peru+Copper...-a058295607
"Rail transport in Peru [Home of Grupo Mexico Southern Peru Copper Corp]: ...
Since 1999 it has been operated as the Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA)... by the Pittsburgh-registered Railroad Development Corporation. ....The Central is extended by the Ferrocarril Huancayo - Huancavelica ...Also connecting with the Central, at La Oroya, is the Cerro de Pasco railway ...The owning company was nationalised as Centromín in 1974 and operation of the railway was taken over by FCCA...The newest railway in Peru is a standard gauge line opened in 1959 by the Southern Peru Copper Corporation from its opencast mine at Toquepala to the port of Ilo (187 km/116 mi) with a later branch largely in tunnel to its workings at Cuajone. " http://www.thefullwiki.org/Rail_transport_in_Peru
"Controversy: During the 2009 debate over the Waxman/Markey bill, Bonner & Associates, a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm subcontracted by ACCCE ["American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity"] though the Hawthorne Group to drum up "grassroots support" for this effort, sent a number of fraudulent letters to lawmakers on behalf of ACCCE. ..."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity"
Asarco Omaha NE smelter shut down in 1997 - did it also burn the illegal secret hazardous wastes?
Asarco's Omaha NE smelter shut down in 1997 - did it also burn the illegal secret hazardous wastes that Asarco's whistleblower let us know were handled by Asarco-ENCYCLE (and then sent to smelters in E. Helena MT and El Paso TX) for the years throughout the 1990's?? Will we ever know? (Rep. Reyes, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee said that ASARCO paid millions of dollars on the condition that the details of what it had done would never become public (El Paso Times online article 2006))
"Google Alert - asarco bankruptcy
DJ Grupo Mexico Seeks To Recover $210M In Asarco Lead Damages
Trading Markets
Asarco paid $1.6 billion in environmental liabilities as part of a settlement with the US Justice Department when the company exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy ..."
"Google Alert - asarco bankruptcy
DJ Grupo Mexico Seeks To Recover $210M In Asarco Lead Damages
Trading Markets
Asarco paid $1.6 billion in environmental liabilities as part of a settlement with the US Justice Department when the company exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy ..."
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Energy Renewal Partners who is cleaning up ASARCO ENCYCLE worked for Carlyle/Riverstone Holdings
"Some of the clients our employees have supported include:
- Carlyle/Riverstone Holdings"
More than 3 million dollars slated for asbestos removal at ASARCO site that sent untracked-unmanifested hazardous wastes for disposal for years to E. Helena MT and El Paso TX
"Asbestos removal and demolition of the Encycle/ASARCO plant approved
U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved a $3.6 million contract to demolish 50 buildings, silos and storage tanks and remove asbestos at the Encycle/ASARCO plant in Corpus Christi, Texas....According to the agreement between the bankruptcy trustee and Energy Renewal Partners, the project deadline is May 29, 2013 and seven general use buildings will not be demolished, but rather offered for sale once demolition of the other structures is complete."
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